Monday, June 7, 2010

good for young faces but
heaven help spines of
old books,
may they find
courage,endure dust,
be made new again,

but,
heaven help us more,
since we're apt to
put this nonsense before
loved ones and friends,
because i've
wasted a minute
wondering where
some book of
nelson algren stories
has gone to
i'm certainly not
'too hard on myself',
this shit's just getting
started,

last match goes out,
you have to laugh at yourself,
there's always lightning,
you know how
you're always praying for
thunderstorms,
open the windows,
make sure your prayers are
going somewhere,
useless is better than
feeling nothing,

they asked,and
abba anthony sent them
right back to the Scriptures,
our sister understood it,
beginning to end,'in total,'
i get dizzy looking for
compasses in this world,

1 comment:

mich said...

happy to find this here today.

one compass is the words a strangers puts together from himself and another stranger reads to right herself again.